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  • 2015 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For influential contributions to wideranging areas of gravitational physics, including tests of Newtonian gravity, stability of the Kerr metric, and the selfforce problem

Overview

B. F. Whiting is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States and specializes in the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Mathematical Physics.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics, notably Black Holes and Theoretical Physics, Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Cosmology and Gravitation Theories, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories, Relativity and Gravitational Theory, and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae.

Whiting has contributed extensively to well-regarded scientific journals, with frequent publications in the following venues:

  • Physical Review D
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Classical and Quantum Gravity
  • Communications in Mathematical Physics
  • Physical Review Letters

Their recent papers include:

  • First-order velocity memory effect from compact binary coalescing sources, 2021, Physical Review D
  • Supergravity black holes, Love numbers, and harmonic coordinates, 2022, Physical Review D
  • Memory effect or cosmic string? Classifying gravitational-wave bursts with Bayesian inference, 2020, Physical Review D
  • Compatibility Complex for Black Hole Spacetimes, 2021, Communications in Mathematical Physics
  • Positive Energy Functional for Massless Scalars in Rotating Black Hole Backgrounds of Maximal Ungauged Supergravity, 2020, Physical Review Letters

Whiting's frequent collaborators include C.N. Pope, Nathaniel A. Strauss, Mirjam Cvetič, Lars Andersson, and Atul K. Divakarla.

In 2015, Whiting was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) for influential contributions to various areas of gravitational physics, including tests of Newtonian gravity, the stability of the Kerr metric, and the self-force problem.

Best Publications

  • Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

    B. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;M. R. Abernathy

  • GW170817: observation of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • GW151226: observation of gravitational waves from a 22-solar-mass binary black hole coalescence

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • GW170814: A three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • GW170817: Measurements of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State.

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;M. R. Abernathy

  • Tests of general relativity with GW150914

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;M. R. Abernathy

  • Binary Black Hole Mergers in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • Predictions for the rates of compact binary coalescences observable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors

    J. Abadie;B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;M. Abernathy

  • Predictions for the Rates of Compact Binary Coalescences Observable by Ground-based Gravitational-wave Detectors

    J. Abadie;B. P. Abbott

  • GW170608: Observation of a 19-solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • GW170608: Observation of a 19 solar-mass binary black hole coalescence

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • Properties of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • Binary Black Hole Mergers in the first Advanced LIGO Observing Run

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • Exploring the Sensitivity of Next Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;M. R. Abernathy

  • Enhanced sensitivity of the LIGO gravitational wave detector by using squeezed states of light

    J. Aasi;J. Abadie;B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • Characterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run

    J. Aasi;J. Abadie;B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

Frequent Co-Authors

N. A. Robertson
N. A. Robertson California Institute of Technology
J. A. Giaime
J. A. Giaime Louisiana State University
Bruce Allen
Bruce Allen Max Planck Society
Alessandra Buonanno
Alessandra Buonanno Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Bernard F. Schutz
Bernard F. Schutz Cardiff University
Maria Alessandra Papa
Maria Alessandra Papa Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Roman Schnabel
Roman Schnabel Universität Hamburg
Karsten Danzmann
Karsten Danzmann Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Nelson Christensen
Nelson Christensen Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur
J. H. Hough
J. H. Hough University of Glasgow

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